Rick-Rolling (off a cliff)

Never gonna to give you up, never gonna to let you down, never going to run around and desert you.  Until now.  Not for Rick Astley but Sick Rantorum, er, Rick Santorum.  The ‘conservative champion’ has bowed out of the race after a serious family illness and likely defeat in his home state of Pennsylvania.  Shame but I can understand that family comes first.  I would have liked to see him contest Texas.  If he could have stopped an outright victory for Romney then he might have negotiated a vice-presidential spot.  Newt Gingrich is a busted flush – there is no chance that he can stage another late revival to stop Romney clinching it before the Republican conference in August.  And as for Ron Paul, well, he’s Ron Paul.  He may have the most intellectual coherence of all the remaining candidates – why have small government at home but big government abroad? – but even his own side don’t flock to him in anything but nominal numbers.  Time to break out the Etch-a-Sketch.